Acting
A rumor spreads about a man being bad luck. His superstitious friends believe it, but it's all part of an evil scheme to ruin the man's upcoming wedding. Adapted from the play of the same name by Gregorio de Laferrere.
With clear stylistic references to the spaghetti western, the film tells a story set in the Chilean countryside in a bygone era. The script, which tries to offer a folkloric costumbrista picture through an anecdote of love and revenge, is primary and unsubstantial. In many moments the film turns out to be comic when it is supposed to be dramatic and vice versa.
A young man falls in love with a girl who wants to be an actress, but when she succeeds, his feelings towards her change.
Forced by her alcoholic aunt, an orphan practices street vending and begging, until she finally runs away from home.
A single man and womanizer who enjoys the nightlife learns that he has a son who is already an adult. In order to gain his affection he decides to change his life. Things get complicated when he needs to return to his past life, this time to save his family from ruin.
Alberto (Fernando Soler) is married with Rosario (Blanca de Castejón), who is a saint and doesn’t realize that her husband is a womanizer that has a lover, Elena (Leonora Amar), whom is an artist and works in the theater, but when Alberto tries to break up with her in order to have a relation with Alicia (Hilda Sour) everything starts to go south for him.
Two girls without blood relationship but physically the same. One is shy and educated, the daughter of a good class marriage and the other is a very clever orphan but with terrible manners who lives in a kind of shelter.
A young couple, Margarita and Armando, reenact the story of The Lady of the Camellias, as they fall in love, Armando's flamboyant father disapproves of their relationship and does everything to separate them.
The daughter of a fashion house owner falls in love with the designer of a competitor business.
Famous singer hires a pianist/songwriter on the strength of his compositions, then seduces him away from his fiancee and from the paths of righteousness in general.
A recently separated man gets married to run away from his ex-mother-in-law, but receives a big surprise from his current father-in-law.
Luis Aguilar is a talented piano student who struggles to make ends meet. At the conservatory he meets the beautiful, rich, and also talented piano student Marta Reyes and romance ensues. One day, a full scholarship to study piano abroad is announced and both Luis and Marta fill out the necessary paperwork--but only one place is available. Luis is torn apart by his love for both the piano and Marta.
Struggling songwriter "adopts" a teenaged girl to protect her from her abusive father.
In order to get rid of his exgirlfriend, a rich boy marries a manicurist, agreeing to divorce months later. The deal is carried out, but the young man sincerely falls in love with her and desperately seeks her out to remarry.
A girl and her boyfriend have a conflict when a neighbor tries to seduce him.
Mexican romantic musical.
When her boyfriends are tempted by attractive women who are only interested in their money, two friends decide to join forces to make them give up such love affairs.
A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.
Two shoeshine girls and a newspaper vendor survive in the Mapocho neighborhood of Santiago. While looking for better luck, Maruja becomes involved with a businessman who helps her become a famous singer. Meanwhile, the two shoeshine boys happen to come across some money from a bank robbery, changing their luck.
